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in our furs and slept for an hour, while the moon 
hung like a large lamp above us, glaring at us each 
time the cold conquered the sleep of fatigue. Large 
bergs were floating about in the pack, most of them 
discharged from glaciers, generally square colossi, 
but occasionally pointed into towers. They were 
generally floating about in the pack either in an 
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“THEY DID NOT KNOW THE BLOODTHIRSTINESS OF CIVILISATION. 
open sheet of water or in a soft bed of ground-up 
ice. These brilliant blue monarchs seem entirely 
independent of their surroundings; here is their 
home where they glory; they move about against 
wind and tide; they plough their way through these 
tremendous ice-fields, while ice-blocks, several tons 
in weight, rise up and roll aside like foam before 
their glittering bows. But, independent as they 
